Stable skyrmions in graphene-based epitaxial trilayers
Recent advances on the stabilization and manipulation of chiral magnetization configurations in systems consisting in alternating atomic layers of ferromagnetic and non-magnetic materials hold promise of innovation in spintronics technology. The low dimensionality of...
The light in the tunnel
Researchers from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, IMDEA Nanociencia and IFIMAC have developed a new method for the fabrication and characterization of atomic-sized photonic cavities, by exploiting the mechano-quantum tunnel effect. This discovery may be fundamental...
An Almerian in the world of nanoscience and permanent magnets
The newspaper La Voz de Almería interviews Melek Villanueva, predoctoral researcher of IMDEA Nanociencia and NanomagCOST-CM. Read More (in Spanish)
Rodolfo Miranda interviewed in El País
Nanoscience 'tsunami' is to come and it is going to change the world Interview with Professor Rodolfo Miranda, IMDEA Nanociencia's Director and NanomagCOST's Coordinator in the section "Patio de Vecinos" of El País. Read more (in Spanish)
Thermally Activated Processes for Ferromagnet Intercalation in Graphene-Heavy Metal Interfaces
The future sensing and data storage technologies will be based on the exploitation of the spin-orbit physics in ferromagnetic- heavy metal systems. Graphene (Gr), a single atomic layer of graphite, is considered an ideal material for room temperature spintronics...
Fabricating thermally controlled 3D-printed metal/polymer components
One of the main technological challenges when we try to combine metallic particles with polymers to manufacture functional composites is to achieve a high metal concentration scattered over the proper polymer. Read more (nanowerk)
Quantum nanoconfinement effects observed without confinement
The means for exploiting quantum effects in the electronic behabiour of nanoscale materials has been an attractive attribute for next generation devices that is unique to nanomaterials - or is it? Researchers in Madrid, Spain, have now observed the quantization of...